New York Jets

Jon Gruden was not interested in surfing channels last Saturday night, especially when a wide receiver he helped draft directly out of junior college 10 years ago was playing. Larry Brackins' NFL days are as distant as the end of a rainbow, but he still can make a difference on a football field. Gruden was reminded of that as he watched the Orlando Predators and Brackins beat the Tampa Bay Storm 69-62. "I wonder what the back of Larry's football card looks like in arena ball, because he's got a Hall of Fame-type career going,'' Gruden, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach and now a Monday Night Football analyst, said through an ESPN spokesman. Brackins,...

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